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Physical Activity, Exercise, Sedentary Behavior and Health
The aim of this book is to present current views about physical activity and the benefits of physical activity in preventing and ameliorating various health conditions that are of worldwide concern. This book was developed as a compilation of the accomplishments of the five-year Global COE (Center of Excellence) “Sport Sciences for the Promotion of Active Life” Program at the Faculty of Spo…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-4-431-55333-5
- Collation
- XI, 336
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 796 KAN p
In the Realm of the Senses: Social Aesthetics and the Sensory Dynamics of Pri…
This book charts new territory both theoretically and methodologically. Drawing on MacDougall’s notion of social aesthetics, it explores the sensory dimensions of privilege through a global ethnography of elite schools. The various contributors to the volume draw on a range of theoretical perspectives from Lefebvre, Benjamin, Bourdieu, Appadurai, Kress and van Leeuwen to both broaden and crit…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-287-349-1
- Collation
- IX, 211
- Series Title
- Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education
- Call Number
- 791 INT
Cultural Heritage as Civilizing Mission: From Decay to Recovery
This book investigates the role of cultural heritage as a constitutive dimension of different civilizing missions from the colonial era to the present. It includes case studies of the Habsburg Empire and German colonialism in Africa, Asian case studies of (post)colonial India and the Dutch East Indies/Indonesia, China and French Indochina, and a special discussion on 20th-century Cambodia and t…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319136387
- Collation
- X, 355
- Series Title
- Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
- Call Number
- 726.1
Playing in a House of Mirrors: Applied Theatre as Reflective Practice
This book explores the concept of reflection through a dramaturgical lens as practitioners in a wide range of disciplines hold up the mirror to their own practice using theatre and theatricality as a way of unpacking their individual and collective practice. Editors and authors consider the use of drama as the vehicle through which learning takes place for the leader, facilitator or manager of …
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-6300-118-2
- Collation
- XVIII, 270
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 792 VET p
Sport Policy in Canada
The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview of current Canadian sport policy. More than ever, in order to understand the role and meaning of sport in society, it is important to recognize the inter-relations between the sport system and the state, to realize that numerous sport issues are indeed also public policy issues in which the state has a key role to play. Given the c…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780776620954
- Collation
- 435 halaman
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 700 THI s
Baroque Lorca : An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage
Baroque Lorca: An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage defines Federico García Lorca’s trajectory in the theater as a lifelong search for an audience. It studies a wide range of dramatic writings that Lorca created for the theater, in direct response to the conditions of his contemporary industry, and situates the theory and praxis of his theatrical reform in dialogue with other modernist r…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781000766257
- Collation
- 170 halaman
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 700 PER b
Creating Healthy and Sustainable Buildings : An Assessment of Health Risk Fac…
The open access book discusses human health and wellbeing within the context of built environments. It provides a comprehensive overview of relevant sources of literature and user complaints that clearly demonstrate the consequences of lack of attention to health in current building design and planning. Current designing of energy-efficient buildings is mainly focused on looking at energy probl…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-19412-3
- Collation
- XVIII, 160 halaman
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 714 CRE
Does War Belong in Museums?: The Representation of Violence in Exhibitions
Presentations of war and violence in museums generally oscillate between the fascination of terror and its instruments and the didactic urge to explain violence and, by analysing it, make it easier to handle and prevent. The museums concerned also have to face up to these basic issues about the social and institutional handling of war and violence. Does war really belong in museums? And if it d…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783837623062
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 708 WAR
The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture
In The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture specialists in various fields of art history, from Early Christian times to the present, discuss in depth a series of Western artworks, artefacts, and buildings, which question the visualization of Jerusalem.
- Edition
- 2
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-90-04-27085-5
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Radboud Studies in Humanities
- Call Number
- 700 IMA
Behind the Scenes of Artistic Creativity
hroughout the literature of creative learning, many assumptions and even stereotypes about the artists’ creativity are nurtured, often according to myths going back to the Romanticism. The authors have been investigating and describing outstanding artists’ creativity and learning/working processes, asking the question: how do artists create, learn, and organise their work? This book explore…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783631653975
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 700 HER b
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